FIRST PERSON | I spent years feeling like an outsider in Canada — until my children helped me see it as home

FIRST PERSON | I spent years feeling like an outsider in Canada — until my children helped me see it as home

For decades, Magdalena Olszanowski has seen herself as a Pole living in Canada, not a Canadian. That all changed when her Montreal-born children began questioning their identity, forcing Olszanowski to confront her own sense of belonging in Canada and to reconsider the cultural divide that had long shaped her perspective.